by Gary Naylor - May 09, 2024
Landmark show creaks at the edges, but gets its share of laughs in this highly accomplished touring show...
by Alexander Cohen - May 09, 2024
Sparks fly in this plucky grime infused play, but it doesn't quite catch fire...
by Mica Blackwell - May 09, 2024
Nikolai Gogol's 1836 satire The Government Inspector caused a stir for calling out the Russian government's corruption. It's easy to see why Peter Myers wanted to bring its relevant story to the stage two centuries later, but the biting commentary under the silliness is lost in translation in this c...
by Caroline Cronin - May 09, 2024
The strapline for Stephanie Ware’s WHOA MAMA! had me intrigued – a one woman comedy about a 40-something woman and her choice to remain childfree. There’s certainly no shortage of rhetoric on this subject, particularly on social media where the childfree “movement” has a real chokehold. But the conc...
by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 09, 2024
Pub garden theatre specialist Open Bar Theatre has returned for a spring season with a deft and slightly chaotic version of William Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Dealing with the fortunes of two young women, the story explores early 19th-century English society, specifically how money and ambition can de...
by Cindy Marcolina - May 09, 2024
Hayao Miyazaki’s legacy is one for the ages. The co-founder of Studio Ghibli revolutionised the Western consumption of anime and set a new standard for Japanese animated films. London isn’t a stranger to the stage adaptations of his creations: a major example is My Neighbour Totoro, which took up sh...
by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 07, 2024
Mark sits in a white box on a red chair. He is dressed in a grey t-shirt and jeans. With the exception of sporting a red cape, he is nondescript, ordinary, normal. In the next 65 minutes, we are taken on an emotional ride through Mark's experiences of love, parenthood and devastating loss, all while...
by Sarah OHara - May 07, 2024
Currently on tour across the UK, Tim Rice: My Life In Musicals is two hours of musical theatre bliss that you will never forget....
by Franco Milazzo - May 06, 2024
Part violent psychodrama, part sunny romcom, The Winter’s Tale was not the most obvious of plays for the Royal Ballet to take on....
by Abbie Grundy - May 04, 2024
Much Ado About Nothing is a laughter-filled production with stellar performances throughout....
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